Chasing squirrels easier this week it got cold. Warming up next week. I liked the cold snap, but a warm up will be nice. Catching plenty of bows last week but no big ones. Will be out next 2 days looking for them. Wollies on the overcast days and y2ks and nymphs on those bright days. Trick on sunny days is to get to the bottom. Crazy low water conditions. Water clarity is clear, great time for sight fishing. This is the time of year smallies start hitting and brown trou

We didn't have any luck chasing walleye first of week. Tough fishing with the low clear water. Today a simple bead head olive woolly kicked butt! 2 browns and plenty of bows. A good day!

The weather is right and we are trying to catch walleye for a few days. Dang it was cold on the water today! No walleye, just bass today. Got 2 more days we gonna try, then back on the fly rest of the week. Water is low and clear, could use a lot of rain...

Just a dusting, made for a beautiful morning! On water in the morning!!

Wow what a beautiful day! About freezing temps with frozen precipitation moving in. Not suppose to be much accumulation. River remains low and clear, steady rain on Saturday but not much. Still need more, hopefully some snow today, I did see freezing rain falling earlier. It may be cold out but Sissy is red hot! Stay warm!!

Its getting cold out there and I like it! River is low and clear, we still need rain bad! Looks like so.e weather coming thru tomorrow. Maybe snow early, I will be at the shop 9-noon, trying to warm it up... With the low clear water still the fish can get picky some days. Sunday last weekend it got tough and a few nymphs made everything right. Ya gotta pay attention to what going on in the water, if the are rolling on the surface something is hatching. But like today if y

We got some much needed rain. Ground soaked it right up. River looks good. I will be on the water next several days. I kinda thought the bite would be tough after the rain on Thursday, but dang I gotta say my little olive woolly was hot today. Browns, smallies, bows, Goggle eye, sunfish, grass pickerel and no telling what else that got off. A great day! We need more rain!

This morning started off hot, olive and Guppies. Sun poked out then we went to y2ks and had some fun.

I have been out everyday lately and we have been having a lot of fun. Catching them on olives on good days, y2ks on the tougher days. The leaves are just about over! Windy days can be a mess. Need rain!

Its cold out and the leaves are falling. I dont mind the cold but leaves suck! Last week the full moon made the catching where ya had to work for them. Then finally Friday night was a overcast perfect dark night. It was on Saturday with plenty o fish! Cold temps should get big fish moving! Colder the better! The leaves make swinging and streamer fishing little tougher. I like to go hopper dropper when the leaves get thick. And when really bad use an indicator with y2k or p

Catching on y2ks and pink worms below hoppers. The leaves are falling and that messes things up. River is very low and clear! Need rain badly.

We got out this morning about 8am and I think they may have been working on the hatchery. Water levels had dropped 2 ft from the day before, lol hard way to get down and already a low river. River is getting to low for a drift boat, using my Nrs slipstream raft does the trick. We had to weave around the boulders, but made out just fine. Ya can't turn off the Spring River, so flow was back to normal by about 10am. No they did not bite well with the low water. They were biting

We did get some much needed rain this week, but not enough to affect the river. It remains low and clear. Still catching bows and bass. Most days we get 1 large and 1 smallie, a type of sucker and plenty of rainbows. Today as a plus we did catch a cute little brown. Olive wolly was hot in the front and hopper dropper in the back with y2k dropper. On those bright sunny days hoppers work great with a y2k or nymph dropper. Early in the morning and on those overcast days a simple

This cold snap will get the big fish moving. And dang, it was in the 30s here this morning. Caught a few on olive, but ended up with y2k catching the most. Was a really nice morning, then the wind picked up and that was not fun.. Looks like special regulations on all the rivers except for Spring River. This river has not been stocked below dam 3 since the flood. Really hoping they stock soon. I have been here over 20 years and never experienced what we are going through th

She sure hates squirrels now...

It rained hard for a bit on Saturday evening into the night. Less than 2 inches here. River was stained a bit this morning making for tougher fishing. A y2k on bottom did the trick. Just a half day today and damg it was cold out this morning. No hopper eats today. River remains very low with more rain needed. Since they haven't stocked since April the public areas can be tough. I'm hoping a cold spell will get the big fish moving. Needs to be cold for about a week. Today

I guess its official, Agfc has made a post that there will be special restrictions on the trout fishers in Arkansas due to the hatchery flooding and issues with federal hatcheries. The Spring River has not been stocked since April before the flood. There are still fish in the river but it would be a good time for cstch and release at least until stocking resumes and they get to big for the river. Just saying we have always and will always catch and release smallmouth bass an

Training going well!

Been on the water a lot lately, and dang we been have some fun! Hopper dropper by far has been a blast in this low clear water. We see...